Folks hold on to your seats and be prepared to be bombarded with every kind of propaganda imaginable. The Conservative war chests are overflowing. Panicked parties who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of history seldom go gently or quietly.
The Globe and Mail has intercepted next week’s Conservative talking points distributed by Harper’s [...]
This short video lays out the #s behind why a progressive coalition best represents the will of the electorate
CBC is reporting that the Liberals will attempt to put forward a motion to bring down the government and form a coalition with the NDP:
“The federal Liberals plan to bring down the government and propose a governing [...]
How quickly have the remaining 1/3 of Canadians who supported them turned on Stephen Harper’s Conservatives? After the releasing an economic update that flies in the face of what every major government in the world is doing to counter the global economic crisis:
Even the Globe and Mail has published a mea culpa, that admits their [...]
Department of Culture has been nominated by The Canadian Blog Awards in the “Best Cultural/Entertainment Blog“ category.
Yippy Ki Yay!
It is an honour (spelled the Canadian way) and very encouraging.
Here’s how the winner will be determined:
“Voting
Two rounds of voting will take place with each round lasting 7 days. The first round of voting will include all nominees. [...]
The following notice was received from CARFAC National on Wednesday 26 November 2008. Please remember that the proposed elimination and reduction in public funding proposed in the City Of Ottawa’s Draft Budget include a loss of 700 daycare spaces, cuts to OC Transpo and long-term health care services along with te elimination of $4M to [...]
This video of Canadian officials visiting Khadr in Guantanamo in 2003 make it undeniable that they have been aware of his mental and physical abuse (aka torture) at the hand of US interrogators for the past five years.
In an October 10th post, four days before the federal election, this blog noted that CBC had rated [...]
DoC got rolling this August in a packed Town Hall meeting at The Theatre Centre with with Naomi Klein and over 700 other motivated citizens. How can this momentum be maintained? What can we learn from the Obama campaign’s success in mobilizing for positive change?
I was psyched for my first, first-person-post, to explore what the Canadian cultural [...]
After a little recovery time following our own election, DoC will slowly roll out a series of new initiatives. The first of these is the addition of multiple authors on our blog.
Authors can be identified by the name they post under and will allow members of DoC, and hopefully guest posters, the opportunity to express [...]
Three weeks to the day after celebrating our role in preventing a Harper majority/lamenting Canada’s second consecutive Conservative government at The Gladstone, we returned to watch the results of the US election with friends, colleagues and like-minded folks not pulling for a McCain Miracle.
All photos courtesy Yvonne Bambrick.
You can see the full set here.
Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
Bertolt Brecht, Life Of Galileo, 1938
